[ltsb, 1809] START MENU BROKEN

[Koldov]

Did a repair install on a machine last week and the user has complained this morning that the start menu is broken...

 

I imagine it's been a while since this has been asked for Windows 10, but to save me trawling through hundreds of posts (as I gather it was a bit of a nightmare to figure out at first) or the interwebs... does anyone know what the issue is and how to fix it before lunchtime is over....?

 

There are no folders or programs appearing on the start menu (kind of understandable as nothing was actually installed to put them there, however there are no Windows in-built OS programs either ), but pinning something just results in the broken tile in the screenshot. I still have the windows.old folder in hope it's just a case of copying a file from the old installation...

 

Edited June 19, 2023 by Koldov

[Koldov]

Just for if (when) this happens again, I thought I'd come back and update how I fixed it.

 

I ran both of these so can't be sure which fixed it, but they seem similar:

 

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

 

Get-appxpackage -all *shellexperience* -packagetype bundle |% {add-appxpackage -register -disabledevelopmentmode ($_.installlocation + “\appxmetadata\appxbundlemanifest.xml”)}